Flowering Trees: Images of Hawaii's Natural Beauty
Photographed by leading wildlife expert and ornithologist H. Douglas Pratt, Flowering Trees - Images of Hawai'i's Natural Beauty presents the most popular and significant of Hawai'i's native and introduced flowering trees. Taken in natural habitats, these photographs showcase the remarkable beauty and distinct characteristics of the variety of trees and their blossoms that thrive in and fill Hawai'i's landscape.

Hawai'i's natural wonderland is a microcosm as diverse as the cultures and peoples who came here from afar. Hundreds of flowering trees have been transplanted from around the globe, including Indian coral/bean, Mexican and Singapore plumeria, royal poinciana native to Madagascar, African tulip tree, and angel's trumpet from the Andes of South America. Others are native verdure familiar even by their Hawaiian names such as kou, mamane, ohi'a lehua, and kukui.

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Flowering Trees: Images of Hawaii's Natural Beauty
Photographed by leading wildlife expert and ornithologist H. Douglas Pratt, Flowering Trees - Images of Hawai'i's Natural Beauty presents the most popular and significant of Hawai'i's native and introduced flowering trees. Taken in natural habitats, these photographs showcase the remarkable beauty and distinct characteristics of the variety of trees and their blossoms that thrive in and fill Hawai'i's landscape.

Hawai'i's natural wonderland is a microcosm as diverse as the cultures and peoples who came here from afar. Hundreds of flowering trees have been transplanted from around the globe, including Indian coral/bean, Mexican and Singapore plumeria, royal poinciana native to Madagascar, African tulip tree, and angel's trumpet from the Andes of South America. Others are native verdure familiar even by their Hawaiian names such as kou, mamane, ohi'a lehua, and kukui.

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Flowering Trees: Images of Hawaii's Natural Beauty

Flowering Trees: Images of Hawaii's Natural Beauty

by Douglas Pratt
Flowering Trees: Images of Hawaii's Natural Beauty

Flowering Trees: Images of Hawaii's Natural Beauty

by Douglas Pratt

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Photographed by leading wildlife expert and ornithologist H. Douglas Pratt, Flowering Trees - Images of Hawai'i's Natural Beauty presents the most popular and significant of Hawai'i's native and introduced flowering trees. Taken in natural habitats, these photographs showcase the remarkable beauty and distinct characteristics of the variety of trees and their blossoms that thrive in and fill Hawai'i's landscape.

Hawai'i's natural wonderland is a microcosm as diverse as the cultures and peoples who came here from afar. Hundreds of flowering trees have been transplanted from around the globe, including Indian coral/bean, Mexican and Singapore plumeria, royal poinciana native to Madagascar, African tulip tree, and angel's trumpet from the Andes of South America. Others are native verdure familiar even by their Hawaiian names such as kou, mamane, ohi'a lehua, and kukui.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781566477673
Publisher: Mutual Publishing Company
Publication date: 06/01/2006
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. H. Douglas Pratt - ornithologist, writer, photographer, and world renowned illustrator - has for over twenty five years let bird and natural history tours in Hawai'i. He is currently the Research Curator at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. His other titles from Mutual Publishing include Hawai'i's Beautiful Birds, Enjoying Birds and Other Wildlife in Hawai'i, and A Pocket Guide to Hawai'i's Trees and Shrubs.
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